Quotes Library

March 12, 2025

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American scientist, Ideas and Opinions of Albert Einstein (1954), Seldes p.119

Name five occasions when you were careless with the truth? Six? Too many to cite?

Beware white liars. Of course, not every one of them will become a big liar, but every big one started out as a white liar.

May 4, 2025

10 months ago

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

November 22, 2025

3 months ago

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

July 24, 2025

7 months ago

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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